REPORT: Passenger tries to sneak snake on a plane (PICTURE)

As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News offers the following information published by CBSNEWS.COM:

MIAMI — A passenger heading to Barbados was stopped on Sunday for attempting to sneak a snake on a plane, CBS Miami reports. The passenger tried to “artfully conceal the snake inside the electronics of a hard drive, which was placed in a checked bag,” said Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at Miami International Airport.

After baggage screening detected what the agency described as an “organic mass,” a TSA bomb expert was called to investigate the inside of the electronic component where the baby python was found. TSA said the “interception prevented a possible wildlife threat on an aircraft.”

“Animals of many species have been known to escape and chew through wires with fatal results,” the agency said.

The article goes on to state the following:

The passenger did not embark on the flight to the Caribbean island, and neither did the snake. The snake was impounded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and TSA said the passenger would be fined.